[Spice-devel] Xspice with --vdagent disables mouse

[Jordan Sokolic]

Hello all,

I've recently begun using Xspice as a remote desktop solution. I'm
finding its performance to be greatly superior to VNC, RDP or others.
Nice!
I wrote a small wrapper script that launches Xspice on a remote
machine with the following arguments:

    Xspice  --auto --disable-ticketing --deferred-fps 30
--audio-fifo-dir $AUDIO_FIFO_DIR --xsession startxfce4 :1

All works well, however I am unable to get vdagent working for
clipboard redirection. What happens instead is no cursor appears in
the remote session, and mouse input is ignored. Only keyboard input
still works.
When I add the --vdagent argument, I see that two additional
subprocesses are started:

    $ ps -ef | grep Xspice

jordan   17426 17404  0 22:52 pts/2    00:00:00
/usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd -f -x -S /tmp/xspice-vdagent -s
/tmp/xspice-virtio -u /tmp/xspice-uinput
jordan   17436 17404  0 22:52 pts/2    00:00:00 /usr/bin/spice-vdagent
-x -s /tmp/xspice-virtio -S /tmp/xspice-vdagent

confirmation that the agent pipes and sockets are created successfully:
    $ ls -la  /tmp | grep xspice-

prw-r--r--  1 jordan jordan     0 Feb  4 23:43 xspice-uinput
srw-rw-rw-  1 jordan jordan     0 Feb  4 23:43 xspice-vdagent
srwxr-xr-x  1 jordan jordan     0 Feb  4 23:43 xspice-virtio

I tried running with '--xsession xterm' and got the same results, so
it appears unrelated to XFCE or any of my startup applications.

(possibly) relevant details:

* remote machine: Ubuntu 16.04 amd64
    * spice-vdagent 0.17.0-1
    * xserver-xspice 0.1.4-3ubuntu3
* local machine: Xubuntu 16.04 amd64
    * virt-viewer 1.0-1

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Jordan